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Tales of treatment, of modernity and tradition, and of global health crisis

NDM-CGHR

The Antibiotics and Activity Spaces project is a survey of 4,800 villagers in Thailand and Lao PDR to better understand how people access healthcare and whether there are simple early warning indicators to detect 'problematic' antibiotic use. Marco J Haenssgen and colleagues recently hosted a photography exhibition in Bangkok on rare and vivid narratives of healing in Northern Thailand.

Hands holding an ankle wrapped in plastic

The full story is available on the University of Oxford website

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